Amendments 11-27

Question 1

What is a poll tax?

Answer 1

Money a person is required to pay in order to be able to vote.

Question 2

What are civil rights?

Answer 2

Rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens.

Question 3

What is income?

Answer 3

Money you earn.

Question 4

What is a lame duck?

Answer 4

A government official who continues to serve in office although not being reelected.

Question 5

What is a repeal?

Answer 5

To take away.

Question 6

Which American citizens right is the most important?

Answer 6

The right to vote.

Question 7

What is in Amendment 11?

Answer 7

Suits against states

-a person from one state cannot another state in federal court.

Question 8

What is in Amendment 12?

Answer 8

Election of President and Vice-President

-citizens will vote for one president and one vice-president

Question 9

What is in Amendment 13?

Answer 9

Abolishment of slavery

-slavery is ended

Question 10

What is in Amendment 14?

Answer 10

Rights of citizens

• grants full citizenship to African-Americans
• a state cannot take away a persons right to life, liberty, or property without due process
• a state cannot deny a citizen equal protection under the law

Question 11

What is in Amendment 15?

Answer 11

Right of suffrage

-African-American men are given the right to vote

Question 12

What is in Amendment 16?

Answer 12

Taxes on income

-congress should not have the power to collect taxes on income

Question 13

What is in Amendment 17?

Answer 13

Election of senators

-the people of each state shall elect two U.S. senators from their state

Question 14

What is on Amendment 18?

Answer 14

National prohibition

-alcohol is illegal

Question 15

What is in Amendment 19?

Answer 15

Women’s suffrage

-women are given the right to vote

Question 16

What is in Amendment 20?

Answer 16

Lame duck Amendment

• congressmen being on January 3
• the President begins on January 20

Question 17

What is in Amendment 21?

Answer 17

National Prohibition Repealed

• Amendment 18 is repealed
• alcohol is legal

Question 18

What is in Amendment 22?

Answer 18

Two-Term limit for president

-a person can only be elected for president for two terms

Question 19

What is in Amendment 23?

Answer 19

President electors for District of Columbia

-residents of the city of Washington D.C. are given the right to vote for the President and vice-president

Question 20

What is in Amendment 24?

Answer 20

Prohibition of poll taxes
-the right of citizens to vote in an national election should not be denied on account of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax

Question 21

What is in Amendment 25?

Answer 21

Presidential Sucession
-if the president dies or resigns, the vice-president becomes president -if the vice-president dies or resigns, the president may appoint someone to fill his office

Question 22

What is in Amendment 26?

Answer 22

Voting age lowered to eighteen

-a reaction to the Vietnam War

Question 23

What is in Amendment 27?

Answer 23

Congressional pay raises

-any increase in pay doesn’t go into effort until the election of the House of Representatives

Question 24

What is a suffrage?

Answer 24

The right to vote.